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The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Chat Pile, Oceans Of Slumber and Unto Others are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“Putting out a concept album about Moby-Dick could be career suicide”: Mastodon explain why Leviathan is so obsessed with the white whale

Mastodon explain why 2004 classic Leviathan is so fascinated with Herman Melville’s classic novel in a new interview

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Melt Banana's 3+5 is one of the extreme albums of the year. It's also completely off its baps

Put them under noise rock, grindcore, hardcore or avant-garde; you'll still never find another band like Melt-Banana

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“Everyone thinks it’s Zorro, or Kung Lao from Mortal Kombat”: Crypta frontwoman explains “bad” Beyoncé tattoo

Crypta singer/bassist Fernanda Lira paid tribute to her pop hero with a near-unrecognisable Beyoncé tattoo, and she’s not a fan of her own ink

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From NWOBHM-revivalists Tailgunner to existential post-metallers Kollapse, Austrian folk-tinged black metal heroes Perchta and UK hopefuls Defects, these are the new metal bands you need to hear in August 2024

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Spiritbox announce biggest-ever London show at Alexandra Palace, Periphery and Stray From The Path supporting

The Canada prog metal sensations will play to more than 10,000 Londoners in February

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"I had a kind of queer awakening to All The Things She Said." Cassyette picks the 10 records that have changed her life

Nu gen queen Cassyette talks us through the songs and bands that soundtracked her life so far - from Bring Me To Life to Bring Me The Horizon

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The tracklisting for The Crow 2024’s soundtrack is pretty goth, to be fair

The controversial reboot will be soundtracked by Joy Division, Gary Numan, Enya and more when it comes out on August 23

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System Of A Down aren’t releasing a new album, but bassist Shavo Odadjian is, with new project Seven Hours After Violet

Odadjian’s new band have released their second single, Radiance, and announced a self-titled album for October

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“Maybe I’ll be a bro and let them take our spot up there”: Kerry King names the band who could replace Slayer in the Big Four

Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and who?

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Five bands you must not miss at this weekend's Pelagic Records Festival

Pelagic Festival runs from August 24-25 at Maastricht's Muziekgieterij

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"Unravels the horrors and joys of the world through a rouge-tinted pair of spectacles. The results are epic." Simone Simons soars on solo debut Vermillion

After 22 years and eight studio albums with Epica, vocalist Simone Simons is spreading her wings as a solo artist

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Helmet cancel US tour over financial concerns and poor ticket sales

New York noise-rock heroes Helmet have pulled the plug on 14-date US tour due to kick off next month

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Fleshgod Apocalypse’s Opera is surprisingly moving, given it’s by a band called ‘Fleshgod Apocalypse’

A 2021 climbing accident almost cost Fleshgod Apocalypse vocalist Francesco Paoli his life. On Opera, that pain fuels the Italians’ best album to date.

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Cammie Beverly shines on Oceans Of Slumber's epic new single The Given Dream

US prog metallers Oceans Of Slumber will release album six, Where Gods Fear To Speak, in September

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Former Anthrax guitarist too busy “****ing around with crazy-ass expensive watches” to think about comeback

Dan Spitz, who played on all of Anthrax’s 80s albums, became a successful watchmaker after leaving the thrash icons

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“It wasn’t really till we got out and played live that we realised it was a couple of things”: Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris admits there was “maybe an issue or two” with Blaze Bayley’s voice at shows

Harris does however credit Bayley with helping “keep the band alive” in the mid-90s

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Every Alien film ranked from worst to best

From Ridley Scott's original masterpiece to newest offering Alien: Romulus, we rate the entire franchise so far

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"The excavation of suffering body and soul." New York noise extremists Uniform confront lifelong struggle with bulimia nervosa on harrowing, brilliant new album American Standard

Uniform dig deep into personal issues and demons for their devastating fifth album American Standard

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“We will look to the horizon of the underground and beyond”: Roadburn festival announces first bands for 2025, including reunited Kylesa

The Netherlands festival has unveiled its first three bands and will host the first Kylesa show since 2015

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See a de-aged Fred Durst appear in trailer for suitably 2000s-themed horror/comedy Y2K

The film’s about machines trying to take the over world during Y2K. Will the Limp Bizkit frontman skin their asses raw?

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Watch Tool bassist Justin Chancellor dress as Willy Wonka to prank support band onstage

Tool’s bassist mindf*cked Night Verses during the bands’ recent European tour

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"More hair! More clothes! Tighter pants!": The trailer for that Paramount+ show about 80s hair metal has been unleashed

Nöthin' But A Good Time: The Uncensored Story Of '80s Hair Metal airs next month

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“We were a bunch of dirty, stinky pirates!” Order your limited edition Metal Hammer x Mastodon bundle – featuring an exclusive Leviathan t-shirt!

This Leviathan-inspired shirt – featuring artwork by Metallica, Foo Fighters and Sleep Token collaborator Luke Preece – is only available via the Metal Hammer webstore

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"It feels like a vision for the future." Nu gen star Cassyette lives up to the hype on her long-awaited debut album This World F***ing Sucks

From supporting Bring Me The Horizon to writing a Eurovision anthem, 2024 has been a massive year for Cassyette - and she's just getting started

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